...Hoffman (#819) July 22nd, 2000 "I cannot live without books." -Thomas Jefferson (#820) July 23rd, 2000 "I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." -Samuel Johnson (#821) July 24th, 2000 "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that...

...pertinacious gentleman; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, 'I don't understand you, Sir;' upon which Johnson observed,...but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."' Although the letter reveals that the typewriter, like the typist himself, was aging, it also reveals...

...pertinacious gentleman : his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, ' I don't understand you, sir;' upon which Johnson observed,...but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." " GOLDSMITH : — " ' I protest,' cried Moses, I don't rightly understand the force of your reasoning...

...retorted upon his, " I don't understand you, Sir," with that most famous and devastating of ripostes : " Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." I am not sure that the rhetorical outburst of my cynical author was justified. I am not sure that Johnson...

...time is never found again. The man who yields to the fascination of the gaming-table is . Sir, I have you an argument ; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. The picture its way to the auction-room. Christ his crucifiers. more than three hours at a time. It...